Author Mark Harding gives an overview of recent trends in scholarship as he surveys research on the authenticity and pseudonymity of the letters, studies that have sought to understand them as actualizations of the Pauline heritage and contributions of recent scholars toward the discovery of how these culturally conditioned New Testament documents might be relevant to modern believers. - Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-142) and index
Introduction -- The authorship of the Pastoral Epistles -- The Pastoral Epistles and Pauline tradition -- The social setting of the Pastoral Epistles -- The literary setting of the Pastoral Epistles -- The Pastoral Epistles and classical rhetoric -- The meaning of the Pastoral Epistles today -- Select bibliography -- Suggestions for further study